BARRETT, William ( - 1624) ‹ LBT 08145 ›
Badges
Floruit 1606 (A) — 1624 (B); Male, married
Life Events
| Event | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Death | - before 8 Nov 1624 STC | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
Family Relationships
| LBTNumber | Name | Relationship | Occupation | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3209 | BARRETT, Hannah ‹ LBT 03209 › | spouse | Bookseller | |
| 33149 | BARRETT, Thomas ‹ LBT 33149 › | parent | Yeoman | |
| 10451 | BARRETT, William ‹ LBT 10451 › | child |
Livery Companies
| Company | Source |
|---|---|
| Stationers' Company |
Occupations (1)
| Occupation | Comment |
|---|---|
| Bookseller | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910) |
Was Apprentice to Master(s): (1)
| Name | Premium | Paid By | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTON, Bonham ( - 1635) ‹ LBT 08173 › |
Had Apprentice(s): (3)
| Name | Premium | Paid By | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARNES, Edmond ‹ LBT 09338 › | |||
| IREMONGER, John ‹ LBT 09339 › | |||
| KNIGHT, Thomas ‹ LBT 09340 › |
Addresses (2)
| Date | Address | Trade at Addr | Source | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1608 | St Paul's Churchyard | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) | - the sign of the Green Dragon (shop) | |
| 1614 | St Paul's Churchyard | McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910); STC. vol.3, (1991) | - the sign of the Three Pigeons (dw) |
Events (9)
| Date | Event type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Dec 1597 | Bound | to Bonham Norton (LBT/08173) |
| 21 Jan 1606 | Freed - Servitude | |
| 25 Mar 1608 | Appr - Binding | Edmond Barnes (LBT/09338) |
| 20 Jan 1612 | Appr - Freedom | Benjamin Lightfoot (LBT/07249) - originally bound to William Cotton (LBT/07973) |
| 1 Jun 1613 | Appr - Binding | John Iremonger (LBT/09339) |
| 23 Jun 1613 | Appr - Freedom | Thomas Jourden [[[JOURDEN, Thomas ‹ LBT 09714 ›|(LBT/09714)]] - originally bound to William Cotton (LBT/07973) |
| 30 Jun 1623 | Appr - Binding | Thomas Knight (LBT/09340) |
| 31 Jan 1625 | Appr - Turn-over/Out | Thomas Knight (LBT/09340) to George Cole (LBT/07169) |
| 9 Apr 1632 | Son - patrimony | William Barrett (LBT/10451) |
Sources and References
| Original Sources | Comments |
|---|---|
| St.Co. Archive - Binding and Freedom records - extracted by Prof. J.A. Lavin |
SOURCES & TRANSCRIPTIONS
Transcriptions
S.T.C., (1991), vol.3, pp.14-5
McKerrow, R.B. &c. (1910), pp.24-5
BARRETT (WILLIAM), bookseller in London, 1607-24; (1) In St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Green Dragon, 1608; (2) In St. Paul's Churchyard, at the sign of the Three Pigeons, 1614. Son of Thomas Barrett of Loweth, co. Lincoln, yeoman. Apprenticed to Bonham Norton { NORTON, Bonham ( - 1635) ‹ LBT 08173 › }, stationer of London, for eight years from Christmas, 1597. For receiving this apprentice without presenting him, Bonham Norton was fined 1s. 6d. [Arber, ii. 226,828.] William Barret took up his freedom on January 31st, 1605 [Arber, iii. 683], and soon afterwards set up in St. Paul's Churchyard.
He appears to have been a man of some capital, and during the next seventeen years was associated in the publication of some interesting literature, such as Francis Bacon's Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh, 1622, folio, and his Historia Naturalis. He shared with Edward Blount { BLOUNT, Edward (1564 - ) ‹ LBT 08253 › } the publication of Coryat's Crudities, 1610, the translation of Don Quixote that appeared in 1611, and the second edition of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's Essayes, 1613.
He was also the publisher of many interesting and notable books of travel. Thus in 1608 he published in a quarto pamphlet of thirty pages a translation from the Dutch of a voyage made by Admiral Cornelis Matelief into the East Indies in May, 1605. In 1610 he entered in the registers A True Declaration of the estate of the colony in Virginia [Arber, iii. 448]. In 1615 he published in folio George Sandys' Relation of a Journey begun An. Dom. 1610, which contained descriptions of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, Palestine and Italy.
On February 16th, 1617, William Leake { LEAKE, William ( - 1633) ‹ LBT 07160 › } assigned over to William Barrett nineteen copies,including amongst them Venus and Adonis and John Lyly's Euphues [Arber, iii. 603]. The bulk of these however Barrett made over to John Parker { PARKER, John ( - 1648) ‹ LBT 09904 › } three years later. The last book entry to him is on January 23rd, 1623/4, when he entered a Life of Mary Queen of Scots.
He died before November 8th, 1624, when his widow { BARRETT, Hannah ‹ LBT 03209 › } transferred some of his copies to John Parker [Arber, iv. 128]. At one time or another William Barrett was associated with W. Aspley { ASPLEY, William (1573 - 1640) ‹ LBT 06927 › }, John Bill { BILL, John ( - 1630) ‹ LBT 08152 › }, Ed. Blount and Richard Whitaker { WHITAKER, Richard ( - 1648) ‹ LBT 10338 › }, and amongst those who printed for him were William Stansby { STANSBY, William ( - 1638) ‹ LBT 08785 › } and John Haviland { HAVILAND, John ‹ LBT 09027 › }.